80-year-old man
the struggle,” he said.
Marranda Brown, his immediate neighbour, is one of the people who have stretched her hands to offer him assistance.
“I believe that being a neighbour doesn’t mean you’re a person for yourself. I try to be helpful to everybody, especially the elderly people. I have known this man for quite a few years. We used to attend the same church, and his wife passed two years ago. I notice that he’s living there alone. He’s a loved person around here… everybody in the community tries to assist him. It’s like him become everybody child,” Brown told the Sunday Observer.
“Where he makes his fire to cook in the mornings, if rain is falling, him can’t really make the fire. I have to assist him. I try to be of assistance wherever possible. They are making a house for him because he really needs it, and his stepdaughter is the one who really assists him most times.
The house, which is being constructed in the same community, is being spearheaded by Morrison’s stepdaughter who asked not to be named. The woman, who lives in another community, said she tries her best to help Morrison, despite her personal challenges.
“He got married to my mother and they were both living together. I grew up knowing that he was my stepfather. We had a good relationship and I respected him just the same. I do what I can do for him because I am a mother of six. I have children in high school and primary school and I am a single parent. I do whatever I can do. I see to it that he eats and whatever I can buy for him, I buy for him,” she said.
At present, she is also trying to construct a house for her and her children as well, she added.
“I am trying to build a house for myself and I am trying to get a little help to help him out as well. I go to visit him every day or he comes to visit me. I have him in mind and I give him what I can afford. I started the house already… I just need a little help.”